Cultural Landscapes in Flux: The Artistic Responses to War and Colonialism, online discussion
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The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by russia is not merely a war confined to the territories of two nations. It has revealed and intensified colonial dependencies across various regions from russia. In Belarus, this has manifested in the partial loss of national sovereignty and an escalation of state repression. In Georgia, the invasion has sparked widespread public protests. These events underscore the interconnected nature of political and cultural dynamics across post-Soviet spaces and beyond.
A central concept framing this discussion is the feminist notion of interdependence, which highlights the fundamental non-isolation and interconnectedness of societies in both political and cultural contexts. As scholars Svitlana Matviyenko, Sitora Rooz, and E. Vincent have observed, "Because empires are entangled, decolonization is an internationalist project."
In a frame of the International Coalition of Cultural Workers in Solidarity with Ukraine and YermilovCentre in Kharkiv, this roundtable brings together cultural workers from Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. Hosted as part of the Sense of Safety project, the discussion examines the shifting cultural landscapes under the pressures of war and colonial violence in these regions as well as possible ways of solidarity and support for each other.